A Palatine man who authorities say was using his cellphone to videotape two girls changing in the locker room at the Buehler YMCA was charged this week with two counts of unlawful video recording, a Class 3 felony, authorities said.

Expressing optimism that new leadership at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is guiding the previously financially-troubled venue toward a brighter future, officials this week unanimously approved an agreement that will continue to subsidize the village-owned theater through 2015.

Crowds drawn to Arlington Heights over the July 4th weekend were mostly peaceful, police said, with arrests for DUI and fighting, and three youths were cited for writing words like "poop" in fresh cement.

Two Arlington Heights residents were arrested for forgery, identity theft and possession of a controlled substance May 18 after police said they obtained more than 60 false prescriptions over the last year.

A warrant was issued by a Cook County judge Tuesday for an Arlington Heights man who failed to show up for his trial on charges that he was driving drunk when he struck another car, injuring a motorist and damaging a restaurant.

Bond for a 44-year-old Colorado man was set at $1.5 million in Cook County Circuit Court Tuesday on charges that he threatened to shoot his relatives, one of whom lived in Arlington Heights, authorities said.

Security personnel at an Elk Grove Village hospital had already restrained a man accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife when police arrived, according to a recording of the 911 call made after the stabbing.

Arlington Heights police said four Northbrook residents have been charged with operating a retail theft ring that garnered a Mercedes-Benz, guns, jewelry and more than $120,000 in cash and merchandise.